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Exclusive: Amazon Starts Bringing the Art of Recommendations to Daily Deals

in Commerce on April 26 at 5:00 am PT

In the daily-deals space, men still are being offered Brazilian bikini waxes and women are pitched discounts to the barbershop. Here’s how Amazon is starting to fix that.
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CupidsPlay Pairs Social Gaming and Online Dating to Create Love Connection

in Commerce on February 23, 2011 at 8:30 am PT

This game of love doesn’t feature a guy sending a woman flowers, or a girl subtly flirting with the mailman. Rather, it’s a social game, where you try to find the man or woman of your dreams, one Cupid Coin at a time.

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Liberty Media Jumps 10 Percent as Q2 Sales, Ebitda Beat

in News on August 7, 2009 at 8:12 am PT

Shares of John Malone’s Liberty Media Interactive, owner of “QVC,” are up sharply this morning after the company beat Q2 expectations for revenue and operating profit. Revenue fell, year over year, to $1.9 billion, the company reported, yielding adjusted Ebitda of $412 million. Still, that was ahead of the $1.834 billion and $345 million average estimate of analysts.